A39690:128
A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing…
A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing the death of her dear and only son wherein the boundaries of sorrow are duly fixed, excesses restrained, the common pleas answered, and divers rules for the support of Gods afflicted ones prescribed / by J.F.
London: printed for Robert Boulter, 1674
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Seventhly, Lastly. Our sorrows may then be pronounced sinful, when they deafen our ears to all the wholesome and seasonable words of counsel and comfort offered us for our relief and support.
Seventhly, Lastly. Our sorrows may then be pronounced sinful, when they deafen our ears to all the wholsome and seasonable words of counsel and comfort offered us for our relief and support.
Jer. 31. 15. A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children, would not be comforted for her children, because they were not. She will admit no comfort, her disease is curable by no other means but the restoration of her children; ⟨p. 40⟩give her them again and she will be quiet, else you speak into the air, she regards not what ever you say.
Thus Israel in the cruel bondage in Egypt, Moses brings them the glad tidings of deliverance, But they hearkened not to him, because of the anguish of Spirit, and their cruel bondage, Exod. 6. 9.
Thus Israel in the cruel bondage in Egypt, Moses brings them the glad tydings of deliverance, But they hearkned not to him, because of the anguish of Spirit, and their cruel bondage, Exod. 6. 9.